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Ray Russell: Now, More Than Ever

Read "Now, More Than Ever" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
June 4, 2013

English guitarist/composer Ray Russell has flown under the radar for most of his 45-year career, dividing his energies between his own projects, sessions for some of the biggest names in popular music and composing award-winning music for television and film. Russell's wide-ranging musical interests have meant that his own recordings have sometimes been separated by long ...

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Koch-Schutz-Studer with Shelley Hirsch: Walking and Stumbling Through Your Sleep

Read "Walking and Stumbling Through Your Sleep" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 4, 2013

The Swiss improvising trio has made its distinctive footprint for Switzerland-based Intakt Records, also featuring projects based on collaborations with notable musicians, spanning various genres. Here, fabled New York City improvising vocalist Shelley Hirsch imparts her flippant and wily vocal clarity, prowess and passion. Vastly experimental and skirting the perimeters of avant rock and tiny elements ...

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Samuel Hallkvist: Return to Center

Read "Return to Center" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 4, 2013

Return to Center is a detailed staging of a sonic meeting between man and machine. Swedish, Denmark-based guitarist Samuel Hällkvist, on his third solo album, contrast the digital exactness of MIDI programming with the human qualities and modes of expression that we traditionally associate with acoustic instruments. Thus Hällkvist and like-minded associates orchestrate a nuanced texture ...

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Gabriele Coen Jewish Experience: Yiddish Melodies in Jazz

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 4, 2013

Secondo album, dopo Awakening, per la zorniana Tzadik da parte del sax-clarinettista romano, anche stavolta alla testa del quintetto denominato Jewish Experience, con un'attenzione, qui, ben più marcata verso un repertorio “altro" (due soli temi, “Jewish Five" e “Mazal Tov from Tobago," si devono alla penna di Gabriele Coen) che comprende pagine tradizionali e a firme ...

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Ahleuchatistas: Heads Full of Poison

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 4, 2013

Siamo alle settima prova, la terza pubblicata dalla label Cuneiform capitanata del coraggioso Steve Feingenbaum, di questo altrettanto spericolato duo della Carolina del Nord: Shane Perlowin (chitarra e basso) e Ryan Oslance (batteria e percussioni). Il loro discorso musicale contraddistinto da iperboliche cavalcate chitarristiche e da furiosi stacchetti percussivi oscilla dal noise al metal fino a ...

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Joy Frempong - Philippe Ehinger: Les voisins ne parlent pas tous la meme langue

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 4, 2013

Un giorno l'ape e la mosca si incontrarono. L'ape disse alla mosca: Mosca, sono innamorato di te. La mosca allora disse: ma tu sei un'ape. L'ape disse: beh, proviamo comunque. Così l'ape tentò di sedersi sulla mosca ma la mosca notò subito il pungiglione dell'ape e disse: hey hey ape... ma tu hai un pungiglione e ...

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Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle: Retro Future

Read "Retro Future" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 4, 2013

Quello attuanto da Jesse Fisher nel suo Retro Future è un tentativo - riuscito solo in parte - di unire sonorità acustiche ed elettroniche, jazz tradizionale e ipotesi future, in una scaletta dalle diverse diramazioni espressive. Dieci brani, tra originali e rivisitazioni, che non convincono appienoe. In alcuni casi le tracce raggiungono la propria credibilità grazie, ...

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George Benson: Inspiration: A Tribute To Nat King Cole

Read "Inspiration: A Tribute To Nat King Cole" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 3, 2013

Million-selling, hugely popular and readily recognisable jazz artists are a bit thin on the ground these days. So when one such giant records a tribute to another it's something of an event. George Benson's Inspiration: A Tribute To Nat King Cole certainly falls into that category: an album of songs from one of the biggest stars ...

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Jeff Williams: The Listener

Read "The Listener" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 3, 2013

Drummer Jeff Williams spent the first part of his career building a name for himself as a supporting player, laying down the rhythmic law for Lookout Farm and serving as sideman to the jazz stars, but these days he's making waves as a leader. He turned plenty of heads with Another Time (Whirlwind Recordings Ltd., 2011), ...

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Kyle Eastwood: The View From Here

Read "The View From Here" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 3, 2013

Bassist Kyle Eastwood frequently integrates a cinematic contour into his body of work. And true to form, he's contributed music to eight of his famous father, actor, and director Clint Eastwood's films. The bassist's output can be characterized by tuneful hooks, calmly soaring opuses, and countered by odd-metered time signatures, clement flows, and passionate soloing spots. ...